From owner-cvs-src Sun Feb 16 13:48:13 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B46F37B406 for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail26a.sbc-webhosting.com (mail26a.sbc-webhosting.com [216.173.237.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F047343FBF for ; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 13:48:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alc@imimic.com) Received: from www.imimic.com (64.143.12.21) by mail26a.sbc-webhosting.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 051068; Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:48:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E500717.65436EAF@imimic.com> Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:48:07 -0600 From: "Alan L. Cox" Organization: iMimic Networking, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Andrew Gallatin , src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c References: <200302161925.h1GJP49b033098@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030216143415.A41500@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030216213742.GB563@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:34:15PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Andrew Gallatin [gallatin@FreeBSD.org] wrote: > > > gallatin 2003/02/16 11:25:04 PST > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c > > > Log: > > > zero the end of the memory cluster we're disposing of. Otherwise teh > > > vm page startup code finds a 20GB cluster on this wacky alphaserver I'm > > > working on.. > > > > Anybody know why phys avail is so cryptic? Does it come directly from > > AT&T and predate C support structures? > > It's probably one of those quick-n-dirty hacks to get something > going. It's polluting new architectures as well, because it's in > MI code. I don't think there's a reason why it must absolutely > be the way it is... > It came with i386/i386/machdep.c revision 1.25. Alan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message